Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation